If your going for an 9mm maybe an HK P30
or S&W M&P 9
and the stats for the test
But buy a good gun for CCW, buy a case or two of ammo and take a quality training class and practice what they teach you.
Total days for the test: 178
Average rounds per day: 281
Total range trips: 85
Average rounds per trip: 588
Total hours at the range: 338.75
Average rounds per hour: 148
Number of times the gun was cleaned: 10
Number of parts replaced due to breakage: 3
(this includes the firing pin spring, even though it wasn’t discovered until after 50k)
Number of parts replaced due to scheduled maintenance: 5
Total number of stoppages: 9
(seven stoppages were attributed to an out-of-spec mainspring that was replaced within the first 10,000 rounds of the test; one was attributed to excessive debris in the extractor and extractor channel; one was an unidentified failure to eject)
Number of States the pistol was fired in: 11
Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin
or S&W M&P 9
62,333 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
and the stats for the test
For those keeping track, the gun fired 62,333 rounds beginning on 22-Apr-08 and ending on 5-Dec-08, a total of 228 days, or 273.4 rounds per day.
104 total range trips, for 559.4 rounds per range day.
344 total hours on the range, for 181.2 rounds per hour.
The gun traveled through twenty U.S. States as well as British Columbia (go Abbotsford!). More than fifty people shot the gun during the test.
But buy a good gun for CCW, buy a case or two of ammo and take a quality training class and practice what they teach you.